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The paper provides a consistency analysis of the decisions taken by the Italian Competition Authority within the 1995-2003 period, concerning its control over mergers and acquisitions. An ample database was constructed using the tools of textual analysis. This data base was generated in a...
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to be an important consideration, both in enforcing Italy's antitrust laws and in ensuring that the procedures for … dealing with weak banks and other merger and acquisition reviews focus on stability and competition objectives. …
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Regulation 1/2003 and the PTC v UKE ruling that dealt with number portability charges. Relevant is also the antitrust prohibition … butadiene rubber cartel case (e.g. in Trade-Stomil v Commission). Finally, the Commission dealt with a merger case with a truly …
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. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an …
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-called more economic approach in the 2000s). This contribution reviews the state of the art in antitrust-oriented modern … industrial economics and, in particular, critically discusses open questions and possible limits of basing antitrust on modern …
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is that efficiency gains, and their pass-on to consumers, may vary substantially from merger to merger. For this reason … it seems appropriate to reconsider current practice in European merger control, which does not allow the merging parties …
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The introduction of the market economy in Eastern Europe produced important dilemmas for public actors within the region : to introduce freedom of competition, is it sufficient to rely upon the market or, on the contrary, is it necessary to adopt competition laws ? If the adoption of such laws...
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's decision process. We find that the probability of a phase 2 investigation and of a prohibition of the merger increases with the … parties' market shares. The probability increases also when the Commission finds high entry barriers or that post-merger …
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The Anti-Monopoly Law, in effect since August 2008, seeks to encourage competition, maintain market order, and facilitates the allocation of resources through open markets in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Studies on the impact of this law on the PRC’s financial industry have been...
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